Quotes About Ethics

A villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.

Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

la auténtica autoridad constriñe el ejercicio arbitrario del poder.

So, simply stop, when you apprehend, however dimly, that you should stop. Stop acting in that particular, despicable manner. Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

Individuals who take this route, this alternative to nihilism and totalitarianism, must therefore produce their own cosmology of values.

A rabbit isn't virtuous, it just can't do anything except getting eaten. It's not virtuous. If you're a monster and you don't act monstrously, then that's virtuous.

There's almost nothing better than character development. And aiming at having a good character is the highest aim, and it's the aim that will provide the most meaning in your life.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

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Just one final point with this—and that's to never forget the ethical side of the equation, which is that you do not want to use pain to disempower people; you want to use it to empower people by helping them make good buying decisions, so they can have the things that they truly need.

I'd always thought that rules were just for people who tended to get caught.

We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad things they do are virtuous too.

Assessing the scale of the p-hacking problem is not so easy—

There is a proper measure in things. There are, finally, certain boundaries short of and beyond which what is right cannot exist").

Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park

You cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know that you're a monster.

Miquel soltó una bocanada de aire. Cuando era inspector solía decir que nadie es bueno ni malo, que todo depende de las circunstancias.Y decía que cada ser humano tenía luces y sombras.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

Desconfiem e se afastem dos indivíduos que adulam os poderosos e pisoteiam os desprotegidos, são de ruim caráter, falsos e mesquinhos, faltos de grandeza.

Feio! Onde já se viu homem feio ou bonito? A beleza do homem, desgraçada, não está na cara, está é no caráter, na sua posição social, em suas posses. Onde já se viu homem rico ser feio?

biologists have been arguing for decades about the definition of "life" (the zombie-rights activists are a powerful lobby group),

La gente espera que la policía sea incorrupta, pero ¿por qué ha de serlo, si todos somos humanos?

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.